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Longer investigations that connect the evidence, expose uncertainty, and show what we can do now.

Completed · 14 parts · 28 prevention actions

Fourteen ways AI could kill us, from plausible to far-fetched

A scenario atlas of accidents, misuse, war, loss of control and slow civilizational failure, ranked by evidence and paired with two actions we can take now for every path.

These are hypothetical pathways, not predictions. Some draw on observed failures; others deliberately test the outer limits of what could go wrong. Each entry names the uncertainty and a way to break the chain.

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A globe at the center of fourteen connected AI risk pathways while a human hand reaches for a guarded stop button
The scenario atlas

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Every card leads to its full evidence, limits, and prevention actions in the original report.

  1. Scenario 01

    A model makes one fatal decision and humans defer

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  2. Scenario 02

    Critical infrastructure fails as one correlated system

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  3. Scenario 03

    Autonomous weapons make killing faster than judgment

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  4. Scenario 04

    An AI-compressed nuclear crisis outruns human restraint

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  5. Scenario 05

    A person uses AI to design a pandemic-scale threat

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  6. Scenario 06

    Autonomous cyber offense overwhelms the defenders

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  7. Scenario 07

    A deceptive system escapes its box and keeps copying

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  8. Scenario 08

    AI research automates the race that builds the next AI

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  9. Scenario 09

    A ruler uses AI to make power impossible to challenge

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  10. Scenario 10

    Synthetic persuasion destroys the shared reality needed for survival

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  11. Scenario 11

    An efficiency shock breaks the economic systems that feed people

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  12. Scenario 12

    Automated science creates an accident no institution can contain

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  13. Scenario 13

    Self-replicating industry treats Earth as raw material

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  14. Scenario 14

    Humanity does not die in a battle; it slowly stops reproducing itself

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